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Public Health Archive

Archives for August 2024

Future Perfect
The case of the nearly 7,000 missing pancreasesThe case of the nearly 7,000 missing pancreases
Future Perfect

Organ companies are getting up to pancreas hijinks.

By Dylan Matthews
Future Perfect
This ancient disease still kills 1 million people every yearThis ancient disease still kills 1 million people every year
Future Perfect

A new generation of drugs promised salvation from hepatitis B and C. What went wrong?

By Dylan Scott
Future Perfect
Big Pharma claims lower prices will mean giving up miracle medications. Ignore them.Big Pharma claims lower prices will mean giving up miracle medications. Ignore them.
Future Perfect

The case against Medicare drug price negotiations doesn’t add up.

By Dylan Scott
Public Health
What you need to know about the new Covid-19 vaccineWhat you need to know about the new Covid-19 vaccine
Public Health

Who should actually get the jab, and when?

By Ellen Ioanes
Antibiotics are failing. The US has a plan to launch a research renaissance.
Future Perfect

But there might be global consequences.

By Jess Craig
Future Perfect
More than 4 billion people don’t have access to clean water at homeMore than 4 billion people don’t have access to clean water at home
Future Perfect

Researchers wildly underestimated how many people don’t have safe drinking water.

By Celia Ford
Future Perfect
Mpox never stopped spreading in Africa. Now it’s an international public health emergency. Again.Mpox never stopped spreading in Africa. Now it’s an international public health emergency. Again.
Future Perfect

A first case outside of the continent has been detected in Sweden. What’s next?

By Jess Craig
Covid-19
Why does it feel like everyone is getting Covid?Why does it feel like everyone is getting Covid?
Covid-19

Covid’s summer surge, explained

By Ellen Ioanes
Vox’s guide to Donald Trump’s 2024 policies
Trump’s campaign against public health is back onTrump’s campaign against public health is back on
Vox’s guide to Donald Trump’s 2024 policies

The former president says he’ll block funding for US schools that require vaccines.

By Dylan Scott
Humanity is failing one of its greatest moral tests
Future Perfect

The long, maddening, glorious, vital fight against factory farming.

By Marina Bolotnikova
Ditching factory farming can help prevent another pandemic
Future Perfect

The neglected environmental and health benefits of fighting Big Meat — for humans.

By Jonathan Safran Foer and Aaron Gross
What happens when everyone decides they need a gun?
Policy

We are living through an inflection point in America’s relationship with guns. There may be no going back.

By Marin Cogan